Stealing Home Los Angeles the Dodgers & the Lives Caught in Between

A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But its story goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. But a Red Scare conspiracy enveloped the city-and the program was killed. Instead of getting their homes back, the residents saw the city sell their land to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy-an ultra-modern stadium. But first the city would have to face down the neighborhood's families-including one, the Arechigas, who refused to yield their home.

Stealing Home tells a rich, resonant story about how our ideals can betray us, and the people who pay the price when they do.